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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Monstrous Feminine"”.
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… of abjection, in particular, with the abject monstrous-feminine. Barbara Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in popular horror films.</p><p>This paper …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… the Night Doctor, and what I've dubbed the White Monstrous Feminine. My analyses of these monsters depends upon contextual explorations wherein the monster serves as a starting point to understanding the larger, interwoven race and racism of White Supremacy. My methodology is foregrounded in …
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Desire for Transformation: The Actualization of Self-identity Through Change In the Films <em>Raw</em> and <em>Titane</em>
… to these binaries are initially perceived as monstrous, due to the implementation of genre conventions, they play on perception of the monstrous feminine, to reveal cultural perceptions that these transgressions are dangerous, destructive, and disruptive. Yet through primary identification …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… of abjection explored by Julia Kristeva and the monstrous feminine by Barbara Creed, are two themes found across the horror genre, and they are applied to the contemporary narratives to demonstrate how once harmful ideologies may be subverted to reposition power and deconstruct oppressive …
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The malady lingers on : the abject and contemporary Asian horror cinema
… of the past upon the present; and the monstrous-feminine) alongside the major themes of contemporary Asian horror cinema (the vengeful spirit; the generation of fear through modern technologies; myth, cult, and urban legend; and horror within the high school and the home), this thesis …
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
… the innocent victim, the femme-fatale, and the monstrous feminine. The rationale behind the thesis is threefold; firstly, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is typically understood as a cautionary tale, rather than a female quest narrative, therefore, I will explore how the tale is often used as a vehicle …
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Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era
… placing the cinematic representation of the monstrous feminine within a historical understanding of Korean horror cinema, this dissertation also demonstrates that the sacred, perfect image of the mother as it is known in Korean popular culture today is in fact historically produced formation …
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Undefinitive
… narratives, my work explores the monstrous and the fragmented as inseparable states of one’s becoming. Through references to body art, speculative fiction, and queer theory, I reimagine femininity and queerness as forces capable of dismantaling societal structure and forging new …